{"id":784432,"date":"2023-05-30T20:02:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T17:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=784432"},"modified":"2023-06-19T14:18:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T11:18:54","slug":"how-do-afghans-view-turks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2023\/05\/30\/how-do-afghans-view-turks\/","title":{"rendered":"How do Afghans view Turks?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/How-do-Turkish-people-view-Afghans-Afghans-love-Turkish-people-due-to-the-unexpected-cultural-similarities-and-just-an-admiration-for-them-I-was-wondering-if-Turkish-people-are-similar-towards-Afghans-in-any-way\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a>Turks and Afghanis were always good at their relationship. Even there is an idiom in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<em>no Afghan was ever killed by a Turkish bullet and no Afghan trained by Turks has ever betrayed his country<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/turk-askeri-afganistanda.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-784433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/turk-askeri-afganistanda.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/turk-askeri-afganistanda-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They trust Turks. Turks loves and determined to protect them. After the NATO intervention in Afghanistan, the Turks who went there as NATO peace force have been saluted as saviors. And Americans knew that since they needed to carry TURKISH FLAG patches on their uniforms in order to avoid an Afghan attack on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turks never shot a bullet in Afghanistan. They never had to. Afghanistani people put Turkish flags in their homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"602\" height=\"319\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/afhan-evinde-turk-askeri-ve-bayragi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-784434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/afhan-evinde-turk-askeri-ve-bayragi.jpg 602w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/afhan-evinde-turk-askeri-ve-bayragi-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the war, Turks have provided security and training also aids to Afghanistani people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"602\" height=\"475\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/turk-askeri-afgan-guvenlik-guclerine-egitim-verdi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-784435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/turk-askeri-afgan-guvenlik-guclerine-egitim-verdi.jpg 602w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/turk-askeri-afgan-guvenlik-guclerine-egitim-verdi-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not only military, also civillian help has been provided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"602\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/afganistana-turklerden-sivil-destek.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-784436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/afganistana-turklerden-sivil-destek.jpg 602w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/afganistana-turklerden-sivil-destek-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They sent their female officers to only Turkey. Not somewhere else\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"602\" height=\"448\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/afgan-kadin-gorevliler-turklerden-egitim-aldi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-784437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/afgan-kadin-gorevliler-turklerden-egitim-aldi.jpg 602w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/afgan-kadin-gorevliler-turklerden-egitim-aldi-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So what I can say is that, maybe ordinary Turkish citizens do not know much about Afghanistan, they don\u2019t focus or care about them but by the State logic, Turks and Afghans are so close due to close historical and ethnic ties\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Orhan Abuska wrote on Quora<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turks and Afghanis were always good at their relationship. Even there is an idiom in Afghanistan. \u201cno Afghan was ever killed by a Turkish bullet and no Afghan trained by Turks has ever betrayed his country.\u201d They trust Turks. Turks loves and determined to protect them. After the NATO intervention in Afghanistan, the Turks who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":784437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}